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The AIA gratefully
acknowledges the
following sponsors
of our 150th Anniversary
celebration:
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Founders Circle:
$1,000,000:
McGraw-Hill
Construction,
Official Media
Sponsor
Autodesk,
Official Software
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Year Awarded: 1999
Born: February 28, 1929;
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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I approach each building as a sculptural object, a spatial container, a space with light and air, a response to context and appropriateness of feeling and spirit. To this container, this sculpture, the user brings his baggage, his program, and interacts with it to accommodate his needs. If he can't do that, I've failed
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• 2004: Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park, Chicago
• 2003: Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
• 2003: Maggie's Centre, Dundee, Scotland
• 2002: Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
• 2001: Gehry Tower, Hanover, Germany
• 1999: Vontz Center for Molecular Studies, University of
Cincinnati, Cincinnati
• 1997: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
• 1995: The Dancing House ("Fred and Ginger"), Prague, Czech
Republic
• 1994: American Center, Paris
• 1992: Iowa Advanced Technology Laboratories, University of
Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
• 1991: Chiat/Day Building, Venice, Calif.
• 1989: Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
• 1984: Edgemar Retail Complex, Santa Monica, Calif.
• 1980: Santa Monica Place, Santa Monica, Calif.
• 1974: Exhibit Center, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia,
Md.
Biography
Born Ephraim Goldberg, Frank Owen Gehry spent free time during
his childhood making little cities out of wood scrap with his
grandmother. When he was 17, his family moved from Canada to Los
Angeles, changing their names at that time. He first attended Los
Angeles City College, then the University of Southern California
School of Architecture, graduating in 1954. Following graduation,
he worked first for Pereira and Luckman Associates, then for Victor
Gruen Associates, where he had apprenticed during his undergraduate
studies.
After a year in the army and a brief stint at Harvard Graduate
School of Design studying urban planning, Gehry moved his family to
Paris and worked with André Rémondet for a year. In
1962, he returned to Santa Monica, opening a small practice shortly
thereafter. In 1967, he established Frank O. Gehry and Associates,
which was succeeded by Gehry & Krueger Inc. in 1979.
Reflecting his belief that architecture is art, Gehry approaches
building design from a deconstructivist perspective. He designs his
buildings as massive sculptures with both angular and curving lines
that provide a sense of movement; he often covers his buildings in
reflective metal. For example, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao,
Spain, one of his most famous projects, is covered in
titanium.
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